Australia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1915, Page 5

Australia.

THE BROKEN HILL BATTLE. [Bt EIIOXBIO TILKGBAPH—OOPYBIGHI ' [United Press Association.] Sydney, January 3. Broken Hill is quiet. All tlie seven wounded are progressing well except Campbell, whose condition is critical. An inquest was opened and adjourned till Thursday. An under-current of racial feeling exists. A raid on the camel camp was frustrated by the police and military. A man climbed the flagstaff, the only stick remaining of the German Club, and hoisted the Australia flag, amid cheers of the crowd. An Italian was arrested for.threatening to shoot a man. The crowd, thinking him an enemy subject, mad© ready to lynch him, but the police protected him. \

Mr Hughes has asked for details of Friday's affray, and says that if the act of the Turks shows the necessity, lie will enforce rigid supervision of all enemy subjects. CENERAL. Melbourne, January 3. Mr Pearoe, replying to Mr Cook's' references to the inadequacy of the reinforcements, says that by the end of January Australia will probably have sent 42,000 men, and she will send 52,000 or 62,000 if possible. Brigadier-General Birdwood has cabled the Governor-General:—"l fully appreciate the honor of receiving the command of a body of men second to none in the British Empire." Sydney, January 3.

For the intercession services the churches were crowded with earnest congregations.